Noah's Ark Discovery & Record Flooding In North Dakota

To all of my friends around this planet,
  This is part 1 & part 2 together. 
  Please take time to check out the link, top right, for actual footage of Noah's ark and anchor stones left in the area of Ararat today.  Click on Ark Discovery to get into the site, then click on the left side, on(watch videos).  Then scroll down until you see Noah's Ark discoveries, click to play, and make up your own mind.  Also, the video on the bottom of this blog is amazing:-)  Thanks!

  There is historic, record flooding on the Souris River in Minot, North Dakota.

  It is has exceeded the record 1881 flood by at least 3 feet!  It reminds me of the Great Flood and Noah's Ark! 

  Noah was asked by God to build an Ark, he agreed and God gave him the exact dimensions and what material to use.  It was approximately 2 professional football fields in length, and at least 4 stories high!  Someone in the Netherlands has built a life size replica of Noah's Ark! Imagine all of the food they had to carry on the ark for all of those animals!  It had to be enough to last for several months!  Imagine 8 people trying to feed all of them every day!  Imagine the noise and the smell!  Whew!  If God calls us to do something, we must GO FORWARD, no matter how hard it looks, how long it takes or if others don't understand or ridicule.  It may be hard, but it is a joy knowing Jesus is with you and has everything you need! 

  Noah had to have had great faith!  There had never been rain upon the earth.  A heavy dew watered the ground every morning.  How is your faith?  Do you seek God in the Holy Bible daily and let Him fill you with the dew of heaven, the water of life from the Holy Spirit?  Jesus has all the faith you need.  Ask Him to give you the faith of Jesus, that He is waiting to impart.  Jesus' faith takes over where yours and mine fails!  I need so much more than I possess!  Like the father in Mark 9:24, asking Jesus to heal his child, I cry, "And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." Thank you Jesus for your promises to give us what we need! Romans 10:17, "So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."  Revelation 14:12, "Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

  Noah preached for 120 years.  The antediluvians scoffed, laughed and ridiculed Noah day after solemn day.  They got drunk, they had orgies, practicing every form of sexual perversion,  they worshipped themselves, they worshipped gold, houses, clothing and people.  They killed their children as sacrifices.  Violence and murder was part of their daily fare.  God was grieved to see such vile wickedness being relished by His rebellious children, because He loved each one.  In Genesis 6:5,6 it says, "And God saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
  Slowly and with stealth, the clock was winding down for planet earth.  Probation was fast approaching it's closing moment.  God was pleading with every soul who would listen.  Many had to have been convinced, but turned away as the partying, and lavish wickedness, carrying on as usual, dulled their senses.  After all, there had never been rain, help less a flood!  Crazy old preacher! 

  The sands of time are about to cease flowing for planet Earth.  Vile wickedness, orgies, drunken parties, flaunted immorality, every form of violence, bold rebellion, love of self, love of money and gods a many are on every side.  Movies, music and media in general, display continual images of evil, capturing minds eager for their carnal wares.  Many churches have adopted the dress, music and entertainment of the world, to try to draw in the world.  It is NOT working.  It is changing the churches, not the world!  God is grieved by what He is seeing.  He loves every person on earth.  Romans 12:2 says, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

God can change all evil thoughts if we will let Him. 2 Corinthians 10:4,5 says, "For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;"  Proverbs 16:3 says, "Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established." Nothing is impossible for Jesus to do.  If you haven't, please surrender your heart to Him right now, because He loves you.

  Suddenly, there appeared animals walking in perfect harmony, clean animals by sevens, and unclean animals by two.  I believe the angels of God were ushering them in.  It's amazing to think that animals were willing to follow the angels into the ark, but most of humanity was not...  If I had been in that audience, I would hope that I would have been startled out of complacency to see that sight, animals of every description walking into the ark without any known guide!  The people had to have wondered what was going on.  As the last animals walked in, Noah was instructed to give his final message of mercy to a lost world.  With all of his energy, all of his emotions, all of his heart, he must have felt the desperate urgency for anyone to listen and heed the warning. No one answered the desperate plea.  Noah and his family went into the ark, and an angel came down and shut the door. This sight didn't even awaken the sin hardened conscious.  

  They waited in the ark.  Day 1, nothing happened.  Day 2 nothing happened, as well as day 3, 4 and 5.  The people started laughing, and throwing things at the ark.  How ridiculous to think that something that had never happened before, could be possible.  This dreamer actually thought God had called him to build a boat.  They were happy to be employed by Noah for 120 years, but he was crazy.  They weren't helping because they believed in the calling.  They were helping out of self gain.  Many scoffed and walked away.  They had work to do, pleasure to experience.  Day 6 came, and day 7.  They laughed them to scorn until...what was that, a drop of rain, whoa, now bucket loads of rain, torrents of rain!  Now the people were screaming in terror!  Everyone was running to the ark, clawing on the outside, begging for mercy to let them in!  They realized too late that they had despised God's mercy and despised those who tried to warn them, in love.  Too late they realized there is a Creator God in the heavens who controls all things, who loves deeply enough to send warning after warning.  They rushed up to the highest places of the earth in terror seeing the sea of water rising to the highest hills.  They saw their lovely homes, their altars to their idols, their gold and silver, their families swallowed by the angry torrents of water.  Never had the earth experienced such destruction.  Water was shooting from inside the earth miles up into the atmosphere.  Water was coming down like an avalanche of waves!  There was such upheaval that mountains were formed, and canyons were carved.  Waves hundreds of feet high washed over the earth, and yet amid all of the destruction, Noah and his family rode peacefully, trusting in the One true God to safely bring them through.  God kept His promise to them, and He does to you and I also.  Sometimes the way may seem hard, but God has promised to provide.  He will never leave or forsake you, as He promised in Hebrews 13:5

  The door in the ark was open for 120 years, and the door in heaven opened into the Most Holy Place in 1844, 167 years ago!  Jesus is making reconciliation for you and I before His Father, and He is pleading with the inhabitants of earth to come into the ark of safety, while there is still time.  Like Noah, Jesus is about to make His final call to planet earth.  One day, mercy will be no more, and the door will be shut.  You are in Jesus' heart, but is He in yours?  Jesus is our Ark of safety. Colossians 2:2 says, "For ye are dead(to self), and your life is hid with Christ in God."  Jesus' righteousness is our safety.  When we stand before God, if we have accepted Jesus as our Saviour and Lord, God will see His Son's beautiful character in place of our filth.  Praise God! 

  When Jesus comes, the saved will enter the gates into the city, just as Noah and his family entered the ark.   We will be in a safe place, Jerushalom(Jerusalem) city of peace. in the vicinity of Mount Zion.  The ark came to rest in the area of Ararat which means, "curse reversed." 

  When the Holy City descends out of heaven after the millennium, the saved will be inside, and the lost will be outside.  The Bible says in  Matthew 8:12, "But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Just as the lost outside the ark were lamenting their decision, so it will be for those outside the walls of the New Jerushalom, city of peace. 

  They waited in the ark, they were tested in the ark, 7 days.  The Bible says in, Revelation 8:1, "And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."  A half hour in Bible prophecy translates to approximately 15 days, 71/2 days Jesus and all heaven will be coming through the universe to get His children, and we will be tested during that time.  Just as God was with Noah and his family in the ark, as they were tossed with tempest, He is and will be with those who have surrendered their hearts and lives to Him, and we WILL experience the curse reversed! 

  God has laid our foundation with colorful gems, in the holy city!  Isaiah 54:9,10 says, "For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires."  When Jesus comes,  never more will the curse affect us.  We will have His peace forever! 

  Do you feel tossed about with life? Is it addiction? Is it finances, a relationship, a health problem, your job,a rebellious child?  Does your life seem out of control?  Is the storm fierce?  Do you feel as though you may sink as the winds of change blow?  There is a Helper in the heavens, Jesus Christ!  He offers to take your pain, your weakness, your depression, your fears, your failures,  your frustrations, your circumstances and melt them into peace in your heart.  He can do this, so just ask Him.  I know because He does it in me. 

  God says in Genesis 9:11-13, "And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth."  So, every time you see the rainbow in the sky, it is a reminder of God's mercy and care for us and our feelings. It is a symbol of His glory, and is around His throne.  He does not want you fearing the moment or the future! He has made provision for you!  Please come to Him while there is still time...  As He says in Psalm 27:5, "For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock."  If you haven't accepted Jesus, please ask Him into your heart and to take over your life right now, then you will be in the safest place in the universe, in His arms! 
  This very moment, God is calling you, as He is calling out a people in the world and the church, to leave corruption and self righteousness behind.  Revelation 18:4 says, "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."  This is speaking not only to the lost, but it says, "My people."  Jesus is here especially talking to the churches.  He wants Christians to understand also, that God's law must be upheld in it's entirety, all 10, or else we are practicing self righteousness.  More on this in another blog:-) 

  Which will it be for you, the titanic or the ark?  God's judgements are coming upon the earth, on the despisers of His grace.  This earth is the titanic, but Jesus has a place, an ark of safety,  prepared for you.  Allow Him to heal you and guide you there.  Jesus is calling you. 

  The following video portrays what happened during the flood!  Very interesting!  Enjoy!

  God B in U & through U,       Joy J